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Yeah I can see that being the case for the vast majority of users. Also it's a damned shame that Google enforces a limit of 16 characters for the password. My

• ThatGeoGuy 10y ago
  Fortunately the community has addressed both these claims, although you need root to set it up (you can remove after). An app on F-droid known as "Cryptfs Password" can change the encryption password separately from your screen unlock password. It also bypasses the 16 character limit, as the encryption key I used on my last phone was 27 characters. At the end of the day Android encryption runs using dm-crypt, so the same sort of rules apply. The 16 character limit is a UI limitation, and there's no technical reason for it. * Note: I fully acknowledge that Google needs to do better here, as I would never assume a normal user could root + install Cryptfs password + unroot after, but at least for those of us who can, we can do something in the meantime.